Lupe Carriles
Actor · 1913 – 1964 · Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Lupe Carriles (25 December 1913 - 6 February 1964) was a Mexican character actress. She acted in more than 159 films, she often portrayed servants.
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Movie5.5ComedyDramaCatita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.
Mi campeón
1952 · 4 votes
Movie6.0DramaCrimeJilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.
La adúltera
1956 · 6 votes
Movie7.3ComedyDramaA bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
Movie7.4ComedyCantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'
Si yo fuera diputado
1952 · 77 votes
Movie7.3ComedyDramaCantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Cantinflas was the manager of an amateur boxer, it is an attractive nurse assistant and occasionally attending a priest in the church and the orphanage. However, a Cantinflas day while wearing tuxedo, is a rich man, who mistakenly believe that Cantinflas is a millionaire too.
Movie7.0DramaCrimeA tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.
Movie7.7ComedyCantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.
El Portero
1950 · 62 votes
Movie4.2WesternScience FictionAn American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
1956 · 62 votes
Movie7.0HistoryDramaIn 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.
Movie6.7CrimeDramaEx-con rebuilds his life after being discharged from prison.
El pecado de ser pobre
1950 · 3 votes
Movie5.5DramaMusicBlind nightclub pianist takes in a young singer/entertainer when she hits bottom... but once she gets stable and starts thinking about maybe a boyfriend, his unspoken intentions start to surface.
Coqueta
1949 · 6 votes
Movie5.9AdventureComedyAfter a long absence, a man returns to his village and recounts all his adventures with a touch of nostalgia.
Movie7.6DramaA Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
Nazarín
1959 · 163 votes
Movie7.0DramaCrimeA nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
Movie5.9DramaComedyIn the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.
Movie6.7DramaRecently-graduated doctor assigned to a small, backward fishing community.
Marejada
1952 · 7 votes
Movie7.3RomanceStrong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally cagey, sparks fly. The two of them marry, and quickly begin clashing on a daily basis, humiliating each other as they try to teach one another lesson after lesson.
Movie6.4DramaA useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
Movie6.0ComedyDramaDuring the filming of a movie an actor has to be attacked with blanks but dies because they were real bullets.
Asesinato en los estudios
1946 · 4 votes
Movie6.5DramaAlberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.
Movie6.7DramaA bullfighter suffers an accident during an afternoon of bullfighting in a town square and his ex-lover tells his story.
El sol sale para todos
1950 · 3 votes
Movie7.8DramaRomanceCultural differences cause tensions in an international marriage.
Dos mundos y un amor
1954 · 6 votes
Movie6.0Comedy about two friends (Viruta and Capulina) who are swindled when they buy a plot of land. It turns out that the land they just purchased is actually the cemetery of a small town. Moreover, the two bumbling stooges cross paths with the local criminal, a masked robber known as "El Esqueleto" (the Skeleton). The film also stars Dacia Gonzalez.
Un par a todo dar
1961 · 9 votes
Movie6.4DramaRomanceThe Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier.
La Cucaracha
1959 · 15 votes